Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio(a)redhat.com&gt; --- I went through the commits since last release and added a few notes which seem to be relevant for the news. In case you notice there's something missing, please, either send me the text to add it (and I'll re-sping this patch) and add the text before merging this one. --- docs/news.xml | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 88 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index 3ed6ff8aeb..29b12cb04d 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -44,6 +44,50 @@ and virDomainPMWakeup APIs. </description> </change> + <change> + utils: Introduce monitor capability interface + </change> + <description> + The resource monitor has been introduced and it creates the interface + for getting the host capability of the resource monitor from the system + resource control. + The resource monitor takes the role of RDT monitoring groups and could + be used to monitor the resource consumption information. + </description> + <change> + conf: Introduce RDT monitor host capability + </change> + <description> + Introduce cache monitor (CMT) and memory bandwidth monitor (MBM). + For the former (CMT), the host capability is shown like: + &lt;host&gt; + ... + &lt;cache&gt; + &lt;bank id='0' level='3' type='both' size='15' unit='MiB' cpus='0-5'&gt; + &lt;control granularity='768' min='1536' unit='KiB' type='both' maxAllocs='4'/&gt; + &lt;/bank&gt; + &lt;monitor level='3' 'reuseThreshold'='270336' maxMonitors='176'&gt; + &lt;feature name='llc_occupancy'/&gt; + &lt;/monitor&gt; + &lt;/cache&gt; + ... + &lt;/host&gt; + + For the latter (MBM), the capability is shown like this: + &lt;host&gt; + ... + &lt;memory_bandwidth&gt; + &lt;node id='1' cpus='6-11'&gt; + &lt;control granularity='10' min ='10' maxAllocs='4'/&gt; + &lt;/node&gt; + &lt;monitor maxMonitors='176'&gt; + &lt;feature name='mbm_total_bytes'/&gt; + &lt;feature name='mbm_local_bytes'/&gt; + &lt;/monitor&gt; + &lt;/memory_bandwidth&gt; + ... + &lt;/host&gt; + </description> </section> <section title="Removed features"> <change> @@ -55,6 +99,15 @@ Drop support for these older versions and require Xen >= 4.6. </description> </change> + <change> + <summary> + nwfilter: Disallow binding creation in session mode + </summary> + <description> + Ensure that a filter binding creation is not attempted in session + mode and generate the proper error message. + </description> + </change> </section> <section title="Improvements"> <change> @@ -68,8 +121,43 @@ Guest Agent. </description> </change> + <change> + storage: Allow to use any format as input volume for encryption + </change> + <description> + Since v4.5.0 libvirt has support to use a 'raw' input volume for + encryption. From now on, let's not limit this to 'raw' only. + </description> + <change> + libxl: Add support to set shadow memory for any guest type, not only + HVM + </change> + <description> + PVH guests now can take advantage of using shadow memory. + </description> </section> <section title="Bug fixes"> + <change> + <summary> + virsh: Require explicit --domain for domxml-to-native + </summary> + <description> + The domxml-to-native virsh command accepts either --xml or --domain + option followed by a file or domain name respectively, The --domain + option is documented as required, which means an argument with no + option is treated as --xml. Commit v4.3.0-127-gd86531daf2 broke this + by making --domain optional and thus an argument with no option was + treated as --domain. + </description> + </change> + <change> + lxc_monitor: Avoid AB / BA lock race + </change> + <description> + A dealock situation could occur when autostarting a LXC domain 'guest' + due to two threads attempting to take opposing locks while holding + opposing locks (AB BA problem). + </description> </section> </release> <release version="v4.7.0" date="2018-09-03"> -- 2.19.0